Found January 25, 2012 on The Ranger Rundown:
My projection for the WAR Yu Darvish needs to generate to justify his contract: Year $ $/WAR Required WAR 2011 -- 4.50 -- 2012 58.0 4.73 12.28 2013 10.3 4.96 2.08 2014 10.8 5.21 2.07 2015 10.8 5.47 1.97 2016 10.8 5.74 1.88 2017 11.0 6.03 1.82 TOTAL 111.7 -- 22.10 Assumptions: Posting fee included in full in 2012 $800,000 annual bonus for avoiding DL achieved No early departure $4.50mm/WAR in 2011 (per Fangraphs calculations), 5% annual increasesHow would 22.1 WAR by Darvish rank in Ranger history, which contains its share of elite pitchers but few who stayed long enough to generate eye-catching WAR totals? Name G GS IP ERA FIP WAR Kenny Rogers 528 252 1,909 4.16 4.25 31.6 Charlie Hough 344 313 2,308 3.68 4.21 27....
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